Hello, I've been making and maintaining sites for a few years now and have expanded my portfolio with a few blogs. To get right to the point I know that blogs can benefit a good bit from being listed in directorys but unfortunately that's where my knowledge on the matter ends. So DP I'm basically just wondering how are directorys helpful? What directorys are a must to submit too (like google or bing would be too search engine submissions) and whats the best approach to take with blog submissions. Thanks for any help.
I would submit to several web directories maybe even make a plan to submit to 30 directories over a 5 month period. I would look at: Age Backlinks Quality of Submissions
Web Directories (human edited ones) are very helpful in providing your Web site of quality backlinks which of course will be used and computed by Google to determine your PageRank. If your Web site is new, submitting it to Web directories (already indexed by Google) will help indexing of your site faster. Nowadays you don't get much referral traffic from directories.
Submit your links manually to reputed directories, this will benefit you as you get a backlink and you could also get some traffic. And there are some other benefits such as faster indexing by search engines.